Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny earpieces…
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Windows on the iPad, and Speedy
By DAVID POGUE You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster. Your iPad can’t play Flash videos on the Web….
Here Come the Cloud Cartels
By QUENTIN HARDY What kind of cartels will deliver business computing, and how should businesses respond? Forrester, the technology research company, just released its business and technology outlook for 2020. The short version is that…
Amazon Broadens Its Computing Reach
By QUENTIN HARDY Attention tech industry: Amazon.com is coming for you. Amazon Web Services, the company’s computing-for-hire division, announced new products on Tuesday that make it easier to run workflow-based applications, both on Amazon’s computers…
A Tech Show Loses Clout as Industry Shifts
By NICK WINGFIELD The International Consumer Electronics Show, which will open on Tuesday in Las Vegas, is impossible to ignore. It will smother the city’s gigantic convention center with gadgets and those who make and…
U.S. Economy Gains Steam as 200,000 Jobs Are Added
By SHAILA DEWAN Maybe it is time to start calling the glass half full. Employers in the United States added 200,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday, a report that came on the…
19 Web Sites for Travel Savings in 2012
By MICHELLE HIGGINS HIGHER hotel prices, airline capacity cuts and rising travel demand mean travelers will have to work harder to find a good deal in 2012. But there are plenty of online tools to…
The Critics Rave … for Microsoft?
By NICK WINGFIELD “GORGEOUS,” raves The Huffington Post. “Best-looking smartphone operating system in the industry,” gushes Slate. “Far superior to most if not all the Android smartphones,” says TechCrunch. Sounds like the usual adulation for…
The 45 Places to Go in 2012
1. Panama Go for the canal. Stay for everything else. It’s been 12 years since Panama regained control of its canal, and the country’s economy is booming. Cranes stalk the skyline of the capital, Panama…
Ways to build retirement security
Achieve financial security over a retirement that could last 20 years or more. By Mark Miller Work in retirement? It might sound like a contradiction in terms, but we’re looking for ways to achieve financial…
What to Ask a Prospective Wealth Manager
By JOHN F. WASIK What do you do when your financial adviser becomes damaged goods? That’s surely on the minds of thousands of clients of firms like UBS Financial Services, which is embroiled in a…
Personal Finance 101
By Jeremy Vohwinkle Personal finance covers a wide variety of money topics including budgeting, expenses, debt, saving, retirement and insurance among others. Understanding how each of these topics work together and affect each other is…
How to Start a Trampoline Center
If you are considering opening a trampoline center, trampoline park or trampoline arena, step one is being sure to avoid the mistakes that other entrepreneurs learned the hard way. Thinking about opening a trampoline center?…
Google TV will Dominate, Android Will Win Devs in 2012
Google finally upgrades When Google TV first came out we had high hopes that Google Inc. (GOOG) would deliver a dynamic product like Android. Instead, the project imploded leading one partner to ditch the fledgling…
REDLINE SPORTS comes to South Florida
REDLINE SPORTS comes to Fort Lauderdale in January 2013 REDLINE SPORTS REDLINE SPORTS Family Entertainment Centers, Fun Centers, Amusement Parks and Children’s Entertainment Centers – the resources you are looking for to design, build, open…
Shoppers Are Staying Home and Logging On This Season
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER As stores lure shoppers with Black Friday deals as early as Thanksgiving Day, many shoppers are planning to stay on their couches and shop online. Online sales will increase 15 percent…
Using Apple’s Find My Mac Feature
By RIVA RICHMOND The disappearance of a device is far and away the most serious digital security and privacy risk that owners of Apple laptops and mobile devices face. With viruses and other malware making…
Smartphone Apps Send Holiday Greetings
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Does the idea of buying holiday cards, gathering the mailing addresses for friends and family, writing personal notes by hand, buying stamps, addressing envelopes and carting them to the post office…
A Look at Apple’s Spot-the-Shopper Technology
By BRIAN X. CHEN A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated…
Pushing On-the-Go Gadgets, Google Makes Its Pitch in Mobile
By STUART ELLIOTT THE song “Blues in the Night” includes a line that begins, “From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe.” Now, marketers are studying the results of a campaign that extends from…
Retailers Enliven Catalog Offerings Through Apps
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER When you browse Anthropologie’s stores, you feel as if you’re wandering through an artsy home, where there are sure to be closets full of eclectic outfits, bedrooms with bohemian quilts and…
Cameras Are Small, Quality Is Big
By DAVID POGUE If you’re an electronics fan, you have plenty to be grateful for at this year’s Thanksgiving dinner: The dawn of easy-to-use touch-screen gadgets. A sensible C.E.O. at Hewlett-Packard. Angry Birds. And if…
Patent Office Highlights Jobs’s Innovations
By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida – Real Estate Short Sales
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida FORECLOSURE OVIEDO FLORIDA, PREFORECLOSURES, FORECLOSURE AUCTIONS AND REAL ESTATE SHORT SALES. Here are all Oviedo, Florida foreclosure listings available. Foreclosed homes for sale in Oviedo can save you up to 50 percent or…
Motorola Xoom review
As we put rubber to road on our Motorola Xoom review, it’s important to note that it was only a matter of time before the Android army delivered a proper iPad competitor. Moto’s partnership with…
10 Apps That Make Magic on Your iPad
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 8, 2010 When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and referred to it as a magical device, lots of people snickered. Silly people. Most iPad owners will tell you that it…
Top 10 Android Apps
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
Mac App Store Opens for Business
By NICK BILTON The Mac App Store officially opened for business on Thursday, with Apple offering customers a new way to instantly purchase and download software for their Mac computers and laptops. Steven P. Jobs,…
Tech Show Surprises, and the Stale
By DAVID POGUE Published: January 12, 2011 The star of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show wasn’t even there. That might sound like an odd remark, but it’s true. Look, summing up the major trends of…
Google Fashion Shopping Site Makes Debut
By CATHY HORYN YOU know how remote and strange the fashion world is when you go to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. For one thing, employees are zipping around the sprawling campus on scooters…
Surplus Auctions Exposed: Is 95% Off Retail Price Possible?
Surplus auction websites are a new phenomenon that is quickly spreading through North America and Europe (like you have probably already seen). They are all over the internet in blogs and success stories of people…
Las Vegas Faces Its Deepest Slide Since the 1940s
By ADAM NAGOURNEY LAS VEGAS — There are many cities across the country that are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the recession. This is not one of them. The nation’s…
A Simple Swipe on a Phone, and You’re Paid
By DAVID POGUE It’s always thrilling when somebody looks at the Way Things Have Always Been Done, and then asks: Why? And then goes on to change the world forever. 1967: Why is it necessary…
Vow Renewals: When One ‘I Do’ Is Not Enough
By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN Published: September 17, 2010 UP until recently, the wedding industry would have you believe that you had only one chance at the perfect day. So spare no expense, be a princess…
Shopping Innovations
By Mary Bellis The Mall A shopping center, shopping mall, or shopping plaza, is the modern adaptation of the historical marketplace. The mall is a collection of independent retail stores, services, and a parking area,…
Watching the Catwalk, and Clicking ‘Add to Cart’
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…